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More "Abolishment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fast sailing-ships, as transports. To meet the demand American ship-yards produced in 1855 more tonnage than they had ever built before.[GZ] The sailing-ship interests strenuously opposed the subsidy system. They denounced it as class legislation unjustly favoring the few, and urged its abolishment.[HA] How strong this influence was in bringing about the change in ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon
... permitted to bear in human events—that a measure, which in other countries and in more peaceful ages would have required a quarter or a half a century for its accomplishment, has become the announced edict of the loyal people of the United States, within the space of thirty-four months. The abolishment of the slave trade by the British Government, initiated by Wilberforce, supported by Pitt and Fox, and Burke and Granville, was accomplished only after ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... will arise from the mass of the people of Europe against the abolishment of militarism. Even the people of Germany, as a whole, have not found militarism attractive. It has been the influence of the military aristocracy of Germany, the most powerful caste in the world, which not only ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 - What Americans Say to Europe • Various
... curious because, twenty-four years afterwards, he says, in defending rhyme: "Whatever causes he [Milton] alleges for the abolishment of rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his Juvenilia, ... where his rhyme is always constrained and forced, and comes hardly from him, ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... it; and its righteous laws will secure you in its possession. But, to what, my friends, do you owe all these blessings? Let not the truth be concealed. You owe them to that curse, that bitter scourge of Africa, whose partial abolishment you are this day convened to celebrate. Slavery has been your curse, but it shall become your rejoicing. Like the people of God in Egypt, you have been afflicted; but like them too, you have been redeemed. You are henceforth free as the mountain winds. Why should ...
— Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman • Austin Steward
... States ought to co-operate with, any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
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